Researchers puzzle over tracks that predate dinosaurs
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November 11, 2016
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Roughly 290 million years before rancher Cliven Bundy brought international attention to the Gold Butte area, an early reptile the size of a baby crocodile left its own lasting impressions there.
A team of researchers from UNLV recently announced the discovery of fossilized footprints 60 million years older than the earliest dinosaurs on a slab of sandstone about 115 miles northeast of Las Vegas, reported the Las Vegas Review-Journal (http://bit.ly/2f9QyJD).
The tracks march eastward across the rock for a little over two feet — six strides in all from a four-legged creature wi...
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